The Cell Theory

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• What is the cell theory?
• What are the parts of the cell theory?
• Why is the cell theory important?
• Why is the cell theory still accepted today?
• How do viruses violate the cell theory?
• What is the cell theory and who discovered it?
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• What role did the invention of the microscope play in the development of the cell theory?
• How long did it take scientists to develop the cell theory?
• What was Robert Hooke's contribution to the cell theory?
• Who are the scientists involved in the early discoveries of cell? What contributions did they make?
• What are some examples of the exceptions to the cell theory?
• When did scientists realize that all organisms contain cells?
• What evidence led to the development of the cell theory?
• Which scientists directly contributed to the evidence for the cell theory?
• What are the three main components to cell theory?
• What improvements to technology contributed to the development of the cell theory?
• How did the cell theory change how scientists thought of living things?
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• Where does cellular respiration take place?
• Which statement describes what occurs in both animal and plant cells?
• According to the cell theory, what are new cells producded from?
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• What is the cell wall?
• What is a tissue?
• Why are atoms and molecules important to cell processes?
• How do the vacuoles of animal cells differ from those of plant cells ?
• According to cell theory?
• Why do cells need water?
• What are the functions of cell division?
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• Two of the tenets of the cell theory are: All living things consist of one or more cells, and the cell is the smallest unit of life that displays all of the characteristics of life. Which is the third tenet?
• What is the basic unit of structure and function of a living organisms?
• What process did Louis Pasteur develop to kill germs?
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• How is the cell related to life itself?
• Who discovered microscope?
• Can a cell get too big?
• What organic substances constitute the cell make up?
• What is the function of the Cell Wall? Which type of cells contain a cell wall?
• Why do scientists think the first living cells to appear on earth were probably anaerobic heterotrophs?
• Why do cells break down sugars?
• Why is cell division important for multicellular organisms?
• How can something with only one cell be considered to be an organism?
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• Define the word 'tissue'?
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• Plant cells differ from animal cells in what ways?
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• In which stage of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur?
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• Which of the following isn't evidence that supports the endosymbiont theory? - Mitochondria and chloroplast have exterior structures similar to bacterial cell walls - The gene expression processes in these organelles are similar to the bacterial processes
• Who is the English scientists who first used the term "cell" to describe the building blocks of all living things?
• Which process takes place in the cytoplasm?
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• If you discovered a new cell, what characteristics would you use to determine which kind of cell it is?
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• What is a group of similar cells that perform a particular function called?
• What are two specific places in the cell where enzymes are located?
• What is the cell?
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• What would happen if all the components of cells are same?
• What are the 3 sources of stem cells?